Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-21

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all the successful lives that have ever been
lived, have been fully surrendered to God.
When the girl Victoria was awakened in
the night, and told That the throne OF
| Great Britain was hers, she said to the
prelate informing her: 81 ask your
Players" and then and there they knelt
down and prayed. Do you wonder that
though since that time all the thrones of
Europe have fallen or been fearfully
! shaken, hers stands as firm as the day she
assembled it; and in every country under
the sun, wherever an Englishman hears
that name pronounced, he feels like waving
his hat and crying: "God save the
! Queen" That man and that woman who
| put their trust in God, will go through in
triumph; while those who attempt to
gather under Their own supervision the
| intricate and elaborate affairs of their
life are miserably PLAYING the fool. l
stood on the beach looking off upon the
sea and there was strong wind blowing,
and l noticed that some of the vessels
were going that way, and other vessels
were going another way. l said to my
self "How is it that the same wind sends
one vessel in one direction and another
vessel in another direction:" found out
by looking, that it was the different way
they had the sails set. And SO does
trouble come on this world. Some men
it drives into the harbor of heaven, and
] other men it drives on the rocks. 1t de-
ponds on the way you have your sails set.
All the Atlantic and Pacific oceans of
surging sorrow can not sink soul that
has asked for Gods pilotsge. The diff
! Guilty is, that when we have misfortunes
lINfo in 10 no q
and they stay there but little while,
and then we go and get them again and
bring them back vessel comes in
from d foreign port. As it comes near the
| harbor it sees pilot floating about. 1t
halls the pilot. The pilot comes on
board and he says: "Now, captain, you
have had stormy passage. Go down
and sleep and l will take the vessel into
New York hsrbor." After a while the
a2tain begins to think: Sam | right in
trusting this vessel to that pilot? guess
! I'll 20 up and see" So he comes to the
pilot and says: "Don't you see that
rock? Don't you see those heedlsnds?
You will wreck the ship Let me lay
hold Of the helm for while for myself,
and then I'll trust to you" The pilot be-
comes angry and says: 81 will either
take care of this ship or not. II you want
to. l will get into my yawl and go
ashore or back 20 my boat" Now we
say to the Lord: 80, God, take my life,
take my all, in Thy keeping! Be Thou
my guide; be Thou my pilot" We 60
along for little while, and suddenly
wake up, and say: "Things are going all
wrong. o, Lord, we are driving on these
rocks, and Thou art 9 ing to let Us be
shipwrecked." God says: "You go and
rest; will take charge OF this vessel, and
take it into the harbor.' 1t is Gods
business to comfort, and it is our bust
ness to be comforted. Herbert, the
great thinker, philosophical about him
self, philosophical about this world,
philosophical about everything, then in
his dying moments asked that only one
word might be cut upon his tombstone,
and that word "Infelicissimus"
unhappy-descriptiv of the state of the
lives and Of the deaths of those who take
their case out of the hand of God. The
only appropriate inscription for their
banqueting hall, and their equipage, and
their grave, and the wall of their eternal
prison -"Infelicissimus." In
drooliug, moral idiocy, they are scrao
bling at the door OF their happiness
which never opens: miserably playing
the fool.
Again: remark that all those persons
play the fool, as certainly did this mar
of the text, who allow the technicalities
of religion to stop their salvation. David
was wise about great many things, but
his Cuttiugs-up in the text for little
while eclipsed his character. And
know wise men and great men, c0mpe.
tent fer all other stations, who are act
ing a silly ana foolish part in regard to
the techniCalities of religion. They ask
US some questions which we cannot an
swer categoriCally, snd go they burs:
into broad guffaw, as though it is OF
any more interest to US than it ought tC
be to them. About the Atonement, about
Gods DEGREES, about mans destiny, they
ask a great many questions which
we cannot answer, and SO they
deride US, as though we could not
ask them thousand questions tina,
they Csn not answer, about their eyes,
about their ears, about their finger nails,
about everything A fool can ask a
question that q wise man cannot answer
o, you caviling men! o, you profound
men? o, you learned men, do please sd.
nit something You have g soul? Yes.
Will it live forever? Yes. Where: You
say that Jesus Christ is not Divine Sa-
vior. Who is he? Where Will you 90
after you leave your law books, and your
medical prescriptions, and your club
room, and your newspaper otfice-where
will you go to? Your body will be SIX
| feet under ground. Where will your
soul be? The black coat Will be off, the
shroud on. Those spectscles will be re-
moved from your vision, for the sod will
press your eye-lids. Have you any idea
that an earthly almanac describes ths
years of your lifetime? OF what stuff
shall | gather the material for the letters
of that word which describes your eternal
home? Shall it be iron chain or amarsn
thine garland? The air that stirs the be-
sweated locks of your dying pillow, will
it come off a garden Or desert? o,
quit the pulling questions and try these
momentous questions. Quit the small
questions and try these great questions
Instead of discussing whether the SER
pent in Eden was fgurative or literal,
whether the Mediterranean fish did or did
not swallow the recreant prophet, whether
this and that and the other thing is right
or Wrong,com and discuss one question ::
Chow snall get rid of my sins and win
heaven?" Tha. is the question for YOU
Yea, there have been men who have &C
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